Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Anthropomorphic Pumpkin & Imps

Wire-rimmed spectacles, an agape mouth, and an expression of full-throated existential despair on a massive jack-o'-lantern suggest a pumpkin that has clearly just received its tax bill—a vegetable that has seen too much. A smug little elf perches on the upper right, apparently delighted by this gourd's suffering, while a small mouse lurks nervously at the lower left, because apparently one horrified pumpkin wasn't enough chaos and the artist needed a full supporting cast of witnesses. The poem below promises that flickering candles and woo-ing winds will bring 'mighty good fortune,' which feels deeply optimistic coming from a card whose central image is a bespectacled squash in the throes of a complete psychological breakdown.